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Registered charity · Bristol

Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust

Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust is a registered charity (number 205658) based in Bristol, governed by 11 trustees and chaired by Dr Brian James Mcconnell since 2024. Latest income £2.9m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £2.9m (2025)
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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes
Where
North Somerset, Bristol City
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.9m£6.3m
  • 2024£3.1m£5.1m
  • 2023£3.2m£2.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.8m£2.6m
  • 2021£2.5m£2.2m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE MAINTENANCE OF CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE.

Grants received

1 grant · £631,400 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £631,400

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £631,4002012-03-20
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

11 trustees on the board

7y median 7y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (2)

3
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

General Charitable Purposes 11Arts/culture/heritage/science 2Education/training 2

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Professional services 4Health and social care 2Arts and leisure 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£3.1m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

9.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 57.6 in 2020

33 from 28 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
205658
Status
Registered
Governing document
CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE ACTS 1952, 1980, AND 1986.
Contact on the register
0117 973 1579
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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